Waikawa Beach rain. @JeremyWxBaker
The crew. 🐦
RNZ broadcasts first Concert for Animals on Guy Fawkes Night | RNZ News: 🐶
In a radio first, RNZ and the SPCA are hosting a special Guy Fawkes Concert for Animals, with music specially selected to calm your pets.
RNZ Concert content director Liisa McMillan said it recognised Guy Fawkes could be a stressful time for animals and their humans.
"We're excited to offer some special radio programming that we hope will provide distraction and enjoyment for both," McMillan said.
And, BTW, Claude saved me some hair tearing.
Q: I'm using the hex colour below as the background for a web page. I want the colour to be paler. Give me 5 options, in hex, for a paler yellow. The hex colour I'm using is: #FEDC91
Answer: Here are 5 progressively paler yellow hex colors …
I agreed to update a friend's (a former client) web page — a simple task. But I'd forgotten about the power of MS Word users to cause utter confusion! So glad I don't do that work any more.
And the page update? It used to be 5 lightning fast HTML & CSS pages; now it's a single page, ditto.
This is our resident blackbird who spends much of the day sitting on our deck railing, singing to me (and the world). 🐦
I think I'm done with this series: The Bea Abbot Agency Mysteries Books 11–15 by Veronica Heley. 📚
Book 12 in particular was a bit silly and repetitive. The others lacked the occasional writing sparkle that previous books had.
The stories have grown stale.
0850 and I'm as ready as I can be for an all-day power cut.
With power off we can't get water pumped from the rainwater tank so the toilet and handbasins won't work. Nor can I boil the kettle for a cup of tea, and the Internet will go off. The Yeti can run the WiFi modem, but won't support a kettle.
Devices are charged. Thermoses are full of boiling water and I've brought a bottle of emergency water into the house for handwashing (and filled the sink).
Oh, and the car's out of the garage so I can go out later. Manually opening the garage door is a huge pain …
Let the power cut begin!
Hooray, it's an excellent show: Jason Kottke:
Ooh, a preview clip from season three of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I like this crew. Season three premieres sometime in 2025 and, huzzah!, has been renewed for a 4th season.
I always love to see a Spoonbill, and the Pied Stilt is a bonus. 🐦
On my way to Palmerston North to collect Deb from the airport. Eggs on toast with tomatoes for lunch at Levin Mall. Inexpensive but delicious. Noisy though!
Kingfisher on a flax spear by the lake. 🐦
I get the feeling I'm in trouble … 🐦
Unsuccessful comet hunting, but it was alright down at the beach after sunset.
Spotted a pair of ducks with at least half a dozen tiny ducklings on the lake. Unfortunately, by the time I'd stopped my bike and extracted my camera they had disappeared without trace.
I waited a while, but with no luck.
I was absolutely delighted when I arrived home from 10 days away to find this postcard from @Odd in my letterbox. I must say, Hell doesn't look like too bad a place. 😁
Luckily I live in a place with very few residents and I have an unusual name. The postie knows me and where I live.
We flew over a wind farm just before landing at Palmerston North.
When nouns verb and verbs noun …
New research documents accelerating plant growth
At first I wondered how research documents can accelerate anything. Then I twigged …